An Iranian director (Barmen Farmanara) tries his hand filmmaking after a twenty-year exile. He still mourns the death of his wife after five years and sees her ghost wandering the garden now and then.
He is nervous being in Iran again and a bit afraid of the authorities. He is assigned a new project: to do a documentary on Iranian burial ceremonies for Japanese television. He gathers his old associates, actors and technical crew and jokes that they will film his own funeral. But his recent series of heart attacks and very spooky nightmares may make him a prophet. Farmanara has a great comic sense… he's warm, relaxed, a little pudgy, well spoken… and has the wrong prayer shawl.

Reviewed by Eric Michel, FilmCities